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Tristan und Isolde

A highly influential opera that paved the way for musical styles of the twentieth century, Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde) returns to Toronto, courtesy of the Canadian Opera Company. A unique production from Opéra National de Paris featuring video imagery by Bill Viola, this version of Wagner’s 1865 masterwork is directed by Peter Sellars and alternates Ben Heppner, Burkhard Fritz, Melanie Diener and Margaret Jane Wray in the leads.

Tristan und Isolde retells the medieval legend of Tristan, a knight from Cornwall, England, and Iseult, an Irish princess, adulterous lovers who bind each other together with a love potion.